Extractions: SUN TZU THE ART OF WAR Sonshi.com's Sun Tzu The Art of War took over a year to complete. Countless hours were required to meticulously translate each individual character from the original Chinese text, cross referenced with more than six major English editions. Finally, an Art of War version you can feel good about reading! Tell a friend A lso enjoy our translation using the auto-scroller by clicking on any of the "S" items located to the right of each corresponding chapter below. A new window will open. To stop midway or when finished, close the window. Introduction by Sonshi.com Chapter One: Calculations S-1 Chapter Two: Doing Battle ... S-13 If you want to master the entire Sun Tzu The Art of War book (and download our translation in printable Acrobat PDF, Word DOC, and Text formats), sign up for the Sonshi Daily . From the editors of Sonshi.com.

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Extractions: First Published in 1910 To my brother Captain Valentine Giles, R.G. in the hope that a work 2400 years old may yet contain lessons worth consideration by the soldier of today this translation is affectionately dedicated. This publication is based on an Etext version provided by the Project Gutenberg . Dr. Giles's commentaries are inluded for the benefit of those who are not familiar with the Ancient Chinese History (500 BC). Etext Annotations Preface to the Project Gutenburg Etext

Extractions: By LIONEL GILES, M.A. (1910) [This is the basic text of Sun Tzu on the Art of War. It was extracted from Mr. Giles' complete work as titled above. The commentary itself, which, of course includes this work embedded within it, has been released as suntzu10.txt (or suntzu10.zip). This is being released only as an adjunct to that work, which contains a wealth of commentary upon this text.] The Art of War has 13 chapters. You can click on the Chapter Number to go to that chapter directly. Each chapter is hyper-linked to its corresponding Chinese text. You may switch back and forth between the English and the original Chinese text, by clicking on the link at the end of each chapter.

Extractions: What's new ? General Info Search the Net About this page... ... Others This page has been designed for the purpose of organizing the resources on Chinese philosophy that can be found in the 'cyberspace'. It is my goal in setting up this page to attract more people, who are interested in searching for the answers of their life, not to limit themselves within the scope of traditional Western philosophies, but to open themselves to some alternatives offered by several schools of Chinese philosophy. But, since there're countless on-line materials on the Internet that're about Chinese philosophy, and some of which I am not aware of, I would greatly appreciate it if any of you can point them out to me. Also, all suggestions and comments are welcomed and greatly appreciated. * NOTE: Links to on-line documents are followed by note in parenthesis indicating the format in which the documents can be viewed, i.e. (English), (GIF), (BIG-5), (HZ8), and so forth. If you want more information on how to read Chinese characters on-line, please check the Chinese-Language-Related Information Page What's New

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Extractions: Assistant in the Department of Oriental Printed Books and MSS. in the British Museum ~ First Published in 1910 To my brother Captain Valentine Giles, R.G. in the hope that a work 2400 years old may yet contain lessons worth consideration by the soldier of today this translation is affectionately dedicated. [Go to Index] [Go to Index] [Go to Index]

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Extractions: Sun Tzu's The Art of War Plus Home ... Tell Friends About This Page from Clearbridge Publishing Book Information Mastering Strategy chinese revealed amazing secrets the warrior class Career and Business career building small business for salespeople for managers ... marketing Personal Life winning love parenting teens New: Strategy Blog ... Strategist NewsLetter Book Discounts On-line Training Live Seminars Video and Audio ... Email Us The difference between a warrior and an ordinary person is that the warrior sees everything as a challenge while an ordinary person sees everything as a blessing or a curse. Anon. Award-Winning Books on Strategy The Art of War teaches the science of strategy. Sun Tzu teaches us to think about challenges in a new way, not as fighting people, but as advancing our position in a way that makes success inevitable. This strategy can be applied to any of life's challenges. Our books and this website are dedicated to make mastering Sun Tzu's secrets easy. There are many translations of The Art of War , but only one award-winning version, Clearbridge's.

Extractions: Sun Tzu Art of War in Information Warfare KNOWLEDGE STRATEGIES: BALANCING ENDS, WAYS, AND MEANS IN THE INFORMATION AGE by Lieutenant Colonel William R. Fast United States Army ABSTRACT: Introduction As we enter a new technological age, devising the proper national security strategy can have a profound effect on the outcome of war. There is no better example than the French approach after World War I. During the interwar period from 1919 to 1939, France formulated a weak and vulnerable strategy of forward defense, driven by her obsession with the methodical battle technique perfected at the end of World War I. On 10 May 1940, the world watched with horror as Germany, with far fewer resources, successfully invaded the Low Countries and Northern France. Germany had made the right strategic choices; her blitzkrieg concept of warfighting took full advantage of the mechanization of warfare. (Note 1) While France was mired in an older strategy, Germany was energized by emerging technology to develop a bold offensive strategy. Today, man's ways of making war are changing again because of new information age technologies. What can we do today to avoid repeating the French debacle? In War and Anti-War, Alvin and Heidi Toffler argue that we need to formulate a capstone concept of knowledge strategy to effectively take advantage of these information age technologies.

Extractions: Global Gulag Globalism - Sun Tzu and The Art of War Home Page - Introduction New World Order vs. America Globalism - Sun Tzu and The Art of War The HAARP that only angels should play ... Prince of Darkness is not the problem "In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all." Strobe Talbot, President Clinton's Deputy Secretary of State, as quoted in Time, July 20th, l992. Globalism - Sun Tzu and The Art of War "The developing coherence of Asian regional thinking is reflected in a disposition to consider problems and loyalties in regional terms, and to evolve regional approaches to development needs and to the evolution of a new world order." Richard Nixon, in Foreign Affairs (October 1967) The Orient has developed in a very distinct and exotic way from Western Europe. Any traveler or student of the Far East recognizes the vast differences. The concept of holistic is a term that is commonly applied to a form of medicine, but within the varied cultures of China it has a critical meaning that emphasizes the importance of the whole and the interdependence of its parts. Mutuality in the family creates a reciprocity within the community. The values of ethics reflects a symbiosis that is judged by the benefits to the whole. That may sound appealing on the surface, but in practice the group becomes the ultimate criterion for a fluid moral behavior.

Extractions: Monday 19 January 2004 The Chinese military is extremely nationalistic in the worst possible way. There seems to be little doubt that China sees Asia and the Pacific region as its own special sphere of influence, an interest threatened by a powerful American presence. This is common knowledge in the intelligence community. For example, Al Santoli, an analyst at the American Foreign Policy Council, went public with it several years ago. Clinton was even briefed on the Chinese military's ambitions and nationalistic fervor  and a fat lot of good it did. As one insider sighed: "He doesn't seem to care." And this is why he allowed so much advanced technology with powerful military applications to casually pass into Chinese hands. Imagine the tragic consequences for Britain if Chamberlain* had allowed its radar technology to be sold to Nazi Germany so he could fatten his political war-chest. And yet, that is exactly what Clinton did. Despite China's aggressive behavior, Clinton ordered the Pentagon to strengthen contacts with the PLA. This was one helluva a one-way street and was guaranteed to significantly improve the PLA's battlefield tactics and refine its use of technology. And what did Americans get out of it? Don't even think about it. But this has all happened before.

Extractions: Discussion Thread: #s , and References: [1] Roy Gutman, ATTACK ON YUGOSLAVIA: NATO Races With Milosevic," Long Island Newsday , March 30, 1999, Pg. 17. [2]John Keegan, Defence Editor, "Are the air strikes working?" Electronic Telegraph (ISSUE 1405), 31 March 1999. [3] Joel A Ruth, "Serbia: The lesson of Army Group E," Co 1999, WorldNetDaily [4] VERAN MATIC, "These Bombs Don't Help," New York Times (Op-Ed), April 1, 1999 Not bad for 10 days work by a Balkan thug, who, according to the Times of London, has no strategy. What follows are my tentative impressions of Serbian strategy juxtaposed to NATO's strategy, quickly processed through what I will call a Boydian filter. I offer these comments solely as food for thought. They have been weighing me down for the worst weeks of my professional life. Perhaps they will help someone somewhere, but if you don't like speculative or interpretive or depressing arguments, I suggest you hit the "DELETE" button now. I. Strategic Overview

The Text Of Sun Tzu The Text of Sun Tzu. I have found it difficult to glean much about the history of Sun Tzu s text. The quotations that occur in early http://www.kimsoft.com/polwar04.htm

Extractions: I have found it difficult to glean much about the history of Sun Tzu's text. The quotations that occur in early authors go to show that the "13 chapters" of which Ssu-ma Ch`ien speaks were essentially the same as those now extant. We have his word for i t that they were widely circulated in his day, and can only regret that he refrained from discussing them on that account. Sun Hsing-yen says in his preface: During the Ch`in and Han dynasties Sun Tzu's ART OF WAR was in general use amongst militar y commanders, but they seem to have treated it as a work of mysterious import, and were unwilling to expound it for the benefit of posterity. Thus it came about that Wei Wu was the first to write a commentary on it. As we have already seen, there is no reasonable ground to suppose that Ts`ao Kung tampered with the text. But the text itself is often so obscure, and the number of editions which appeared from that time onward so great, especially during the T`ang and S ung dynasties, that it would be surprising if numerous corruptions had not managed to creep in. Towards the middle of the Sung period, by which time all the chief commentaries on Sun Tzu were in existence, a certain Chi T`ien-pao published a work in 15 C HUAN entitled "Sun Tzu with the collected commentaries of ten writers." There was another text, with variant readings put forward by Chu Fu of Ta-hsing, which also had supporters among the scholars of that period; but in the Ming editions, Sun Hsing-yen tells us, these readings were for some reason or other no longer put into circulation.